Week 60: Front Entrance & Interior Doors

This week the exterior of the front entrance is finished. It looks great, with the massive glass door. All the interior frames were installed and the door was installed. A really nice feature is the magnetic latch, it feels just like a regular latch, but no strike plate is visible. The doors are super clean. They are well worth the price tag.
We went to Bowdoin part which Ken had mentioned that he saw our house across the river. It's a bit surreal to look at our house from afar. The long horizontal line made it easy to spot immediately. Also found the local road on our side of the river with a closer view of the house from down the cliff, Mount Rose Road, which is a deadend road that services the houses down the cliff.
We spent the day in Rhinebeck, checking out Sawkille Co. Decided to submit a request for quote on a custom credenza. Rather support some local artists than big city companies. Let's see how it goes. Walnut with bleached sycamore, with 6 drawers.

Week 58 & 59: Local Artists and Furnishings

The last weeks were filled with furniture shopping. We found the artist that does the wood stumps for BDDW. Visited Kieran Kinsella's studio today in Rosendale, NY (just 30 minutes north of us). It's a perfect artists studio with several works in progress. We've commissions Kieran to make 6 pieces for us in the next year or maybe 2 years time. Kieran's pieces were picked up to sell at BDDW, so naturally he's quite busy trying to fill all the orders.

Matt and Adam finished the TV framing this week, the way the mount is set, I think we can hang a 100" TV and it wouldn't be any problem.
Our Solar system is delayed till end October due to the frame not being ready, but as long as we turn on the solar this year, we can still quality to get the tax credits from the gov't.

Week 57: Interior Framing + Last of the wiring work

This was a rainy week, torrential rain poured down on our site. More interior framing was done. We went up on Saturday to finalize the remainder of the audio and video wiring.
The good news is that we should have some resolution on the slope and non-disturbance issue. The drill sample the engineers took seem pretty stable, so the town should be happy about the results to settle the issue.
Once that is done, we can proceed to get a deck plan approved.
Otherwise things have been slow, we are moving on to purchasing interior items and fixtures. Custom designed a chandelier for the dining area. Going to fill it with Edison bulbs. Can't wait.